Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-01-21
PEDIGREE HUNTING.
THE CHARLES KENT MARE, WEBER S
TOM THUMB AND OTHER ORANGE
COUNTY, N. y, PEDlGREES.

the village of Chester
Mr.. Garvin is blacksmith and I'M cN-
cecdingly Wcll-appearing man. He had
shod the black gclding that Jonas Seely
raised by Tom Thumb from the dam of
lIambletonan said it was lG hands high
and a very fine looking horse; had clean
fiat leg, strong loin, well coupled up and
could 90 well; as fine a pattern as you
could find and ought to have been kept a
stallion. Jonas Seely's son owned him
for years. The dam of Hambletonian
was IA compact-made, well-proportioned,
blocky, dark-bay mare, Is hands IL inch
high. with bob tail think little white
on hind foot. Mr.. Miller suggested that
there was little gray hair on front
ankle. Mr.. Garvin further said she had
n colt by Amack after 1854; she must
have died about 1857 or IS; she was
great mare for endurance and speed. Mr..
Garvin was accustomed to trim her feet.
Belle. the dam of Green's Bashaw, was
bred by Jonas Seely. The dam of Lam
bert was little inclined to be vicious
she kicked in harness.
When Rysdyk bought the Kent mare
she was in foal by Young Patriot, and
produced a filly afterwards bought by O.
II. Wood who bred her to Hambletonian
and got a bay filly.
The Fiddler colt from the Charles Kent
mare was foaled about 1854. poor worth
less brute: looked like a scrub of the
thoroughbreds it was a light sorrel and
was used in a livery.
This Charles Kent mare had clean
head. was broad under the iowls and well
cut out: wide between the eyes and had
a good eye; llambletonian had the most
prominent eye | ever saw in a horses
head: the last colt of the Kent mare was
by Almack. son of IIambletonian. She
died about the next year.
Sir Walter (hi> real name was Walter
Scot) was great big horse. 1913 strong.
one hind heel white; might have had two
white feet. Jesse Roe bred him from Il
mare by Kings Bellfoundcr, son of imp.
Bellfounder. Edward Seely bought of
Roe-bought a pair-Chares bought of
Edward: he sold to Mr.. Rysdyk; he sold
to John kenner of New York IA butcher.
who is vet living: should think it was in
1855 or 6 that he traded him to Kenner !:
Jimmy MCGEE got him of kcnner and
trotted him; he went West to Pennsyl-
vania. etc; he was older than IIamble-
tonian.
Tippoo Saib from the Kent mare was
foaled, think, in lS52-samc year as
AleXander's Abdallah.
| investigated the pedigree of the dam
of Goldsmith Maid. She was unknown.
No man on earth knows who bred her, or
her age.
owned Fanny Mapes; bought her of
Abraham Byerson of Hampton, n. V. /;
bred by Brewster, got by AleXander's
Abdallah a man named Sutton of New
York traded for a pair of bobtailed mares
of William Saunders, Clyde, \. Y. One
of them was a kicker; she was the dam
of Fanny Mapes.
Mr.. Guy Miller said he thought Tom
Thumb had strain of Canadian blood.
Sir Walter had one white heel behind.
The Kent mare was alive when the Al
mack colt was coming two. She was very
blOod-like; her colts took after the sires
her colt, Belle, by Tom Thumb. was "A
great, big, rugged mare. well built, every
i,la nT h..r l,rI
doubt of that.
The Kent mare was timber on front
legs as any horse. She injured her hind
quarters in New York so that every mus
Gle was shrunken; heard She fell; mus
cles had withered away. Garvin thought
that Kent got her of Seely, and sold her
back afterwards. Seely and Kent hand
led cattle together. Mr.. Miller thought
Peter Seely priclied her and broke her tail.
she had one roam foot.
The landlord hitched up trotting
granddaughter of Happy Medium and car
ried me to Mr.. Chas. b. Seely's, who
lives on the farm formerly owned by
Montfort Van Kleek, breeder of the dam
and grandam of Daniel Lambert. Like
all the other farms of this region, this is
very fine one, with excellent buildings.
We found Mr.. Seely, gentleman of
about seventy, with long gray whiskers,
good face and excellent physique; he was
in his barnyard, looking over some colts.
He said Tom Thumb was short, Is hands
and called Canadian; he was a Tartar /;
don't remember hearing Weber say
where he came from. Thought his broth
er. Gabriel, would know more about him
Tom Thumb had two colts by the Kent
mare-couldn't say-wouldn't say for
certain whether Jonas Seely bred them
or not; one was black filly, l5-2 or 3,